Wasps' players have been called upon to 'carry the hurt' of a record European defeat into the must-win match with Bath.

The Ricoh Arena clash on Saturday sees both sides enter the second round of Heineken Champions Cup with a defeat against their names after Wasps' heavy loss to Leinster and Bath's home defeat to Toulouse.

"When you come away lose by 50 points, you hurt for the fans, you hurt for the owner and everybody who puts a lot of money into the club," said director of rugby Dai Young reflecting on the 52-3 defeat.

"If they aren't hurting and not feeling embarrassed by it and not wanting to put it right, then I have the wrong people.

Run into the challenge

Dejected Wasps players after the Champions Cup match at the RDS Arena

"I want them to hurt but I don't want them to go into their shells now which I've told them.

"The easiest way to not make mistakes is to not do anything. But we can't have that, we want people who are going to run into the challenge, not away from it. And that's what we've talked about.

"It's behind us now, but nobody's brushing it under the carpet. Carry the hurt into this game and make sure we play like we can."

Young was highly critical of his side's use of the ball against Leinster and revealed his side has been working on a more direct approach to gun down their Premiership rivals in the European competition.

Narrowed our game

"Ten opportunities to put pressure on them, which we didn't take. So we did have the ball, but we didn't keep the ball.

Jack McGrath

"The boys could see that and put their hands up to say that's unacceptable. We need to be better. We've narrowed our game a bit this week, certainly to start the game. That's not chucking away any secrets.

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"But we want to make sure we start the game and don't make any mistakes with the ball early doors. We need to get our forwards into the game and some momentum, fire some shots of our own, and then we can expand the game."

While Wasps enter the match bottom of pool one, courtesy of the losing bonus point Bath picked up in round one, Young believes it is the visitors to Coventry who will be feeling the weight of pressure the most.

All sorts of pressure

"Probably a bit more so for them really because they've lost at home," said Young, responding to whether the game falls into the 'must-win' category.

Elliot Daly

"It doesn't matter who you play, as I said after the game, I wasn't making light of it, we could go away to Leinster, play really really well, lose by 10 points and get nothing. That wasn't the case, we lost by 50 points, you still get nothing.

"Who is going there [Leinster] to win? I don't know. I don't think there's many teams out there who are gong to come away with a result there.

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"You've got to win your home games, if you lose a home game you've got to pick up two away games so you put yourselves under all sorts of pressure. We did it a couple of seasons ago, the Scarlets did it last year. It can be done.

"It doesn't matter who we had this weekend, it's a home game in this competition you've really got to get yourself a win or you're really putting yourselves under pressure. If we get a win we're back in it. Then we're looking ahead to the double header [with Toulouse] with real meaning."